We read books for escapism and this is YA, so we probably shouldn't traumatize the kiddos with brutal depictions of what bigotry in action could look like in history. Which I think, on the one hand, is actually fine. not at all, except when convenient), there's still a sort of whitewashed gloss to the book that never really goes there. And while it touches upon racism and bigotry in the '80s more than books like ELEANOR AND PARK did (i.e.
The time travel is purely whimsical and doesn't really have a lot of scientific bases. Because SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND is not a perfect read. One is a glorious homage to the pulpy 1950s horror films with a dash of Harvest Moon dating sim and the other masturbates harder to the upwardly mobile aspirations of the bourgeoisie than it does the BDSM sex it supposedly (and problematically, I might add) espouses.Īnyway, that's why when I find books like SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND that have low ratings on Goodreads, part of me is like, "You fools! Are we but mere swines turning up our snouts at the pearls that lie before us?" And part of me is like, "Actually, maybe I'm the weird one here, and also, let those that live in pig houses cast not the first pearl." Or something like that. It's why I like books like, say, I MARRIED THE LIZARD MAN but don't like books like FIFTY SHADES OF GREY.
It's not that I'm intentionally contrary, mostly it's more that I happen to be a big fan of camp and irony, and "mainstream" things aren't really written for people like me, AKA awkward dorks who evolved from precocious to pretentious the way Charmander inevitably becomes a Charizard, but who also aren't quite pretentious enough to throw out their Joel Schumacher movies or tattered V.C.
I'm frequently at odds with popular opinion on this site, for better or for worse (usually for worse).
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